K Nick Folk celebrates after kicking the game-winner as time expired to lift the Jets over the Colts, 17-16..Getty Images

INDIANAPOLIS — Cue up the “kiss the rings’’ quote.

Bring back the Rex Ryan Tom Brady diss.

Resurrect details of the 45-3 rout back in December.

Thanks to a taut scintillating 17-16 AFC wild-card playoff victory over the Colts Saturday night at Lucas Oil Stadium, the Jets are heading back to Foxborough to play the hated Patriots next Sunday in what will surely be yet another delicious chapter of Border War proportion.

The Jets won it in a frenetic finish that saw kicker Nick Folk kick a 32-yard game-winning field goal as time expired just moments after the Colts appeared to have the game in hand with a 50-yard Adam Vinatieri field goal with 53 seconds remaining.

The Jets got the ball back with 45 seconds remaining and Mark Sanchez, going Peyton Manning on the Colts, calmly drove the Jets 40 yards in five plays to set Folk up for the game winner.

For the Jets, who’ve made no bones about the fact that this is a Super Bowl-or-bust ride they’re on, Saturday night’s win was imperative, because the Colts were physically depleted with injuries and the Jets were desperate to avenge last January’s AFC Championship game.

How badly did the Jets want this one?

Ryan at the start of the week called this one “personal’’ because of the way Manning has owned him, going 5-1 against his defenses with the only loss coming in the Curtis Painter give-away game last season.

As the week went on, Ryan continued to say there isn’t anyone he wanted to beat more badly than Manning. He finally got his pelt. Now he gets to go after Bill Belichick and his rings.

The Jets had taken a 14-10 lead with 9:59 remaining in the game on the second of two LaDainian Tomlinson one-yard scoring runs. It capped a mammoth 17-play, 87-yard drive that melted 9:54 off the clock and kept Manning on the sideline.

The drive was kept alive by several key third-down plays, including a heads-up shovel flip by Sanchez to Tomlinson for 9 yards on third and 7 and a six-yard Sanchez scramble on third-and-1. The Colts cut the lead to 14-13 on a 32-yard Vinatieri field goal with 4:37 remaining in the game.

That was preceded by a curious Colts call to run the ball on third-and-7 from the Jets 15-yard line. Dominic Rhodes was stopped after a 1-yard gain. The Vinatieri field goal, his 37th against the Jets in his career in 40 tries, gave the Jets the ball back with 4:37.

From there, the Jets got a colossal break when, after Santonio Holmes dropped a third-down pass, Colts receiver Taj Smith ran into Jets punter Steve Weatherford on a punt, giving the Jets a freebie first down with 3:02 remaining. The Jets ended up giving the ball back to the Colts with 2:37 remaining and Manning led them down the field for a 50-yard Vinatieri field goal that gave them a 16-14 lead with 53 seconds remaining.

The Colts ended what began as a scoreless defensive struggle when they took a 7-0 lead on a 57-yard Manning scoring pass to Pierre Garcon with 5:25 remaining in the first half. Garcon beat Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie on an inside post route and safety Brodney Pool, taking a poor angle, was too late to help Cromartie as Garcon split the two and caught the Manning pass in stride. Cromartie inexplicably appeared to bite on a play-action fake, which slowed his coverage. When he got to the sideline he got an earful from Rex Ryan.

As bad as that defensive play was by Cromartie, Mark Sanchez outdid him on the Jets ensuing drive. After moving the offense methodically down to the Colts 19-yard line, Sanchez tried to force a third-down pass to tight end Dustin Keller and it was picked off at the goal line by Colts cornerback Justin Tryon, who returned it 23 yards with 45 seconds remaining in the game.

The debilitating Sanchez gaffe, arguably his worst, most damaging pass of the season, cost the Jets three points in a tight defensive struggle of a game.

Minutes after Sanchez’s interception and the end of the first half, Cheap Trick, the halftime entertainment, played its old hit “Surrender,’’ which is exactly what Sanchez should have done instead of trying to make that last throw. The difference in the first half was in the quarterback play.

Manning waited patiently for his moment and he struck. Sanchez, who was off with his accuracy, got greedy and forced matters. The result was a 7-0 Colts lead at halftime.

The Jets showed their resilience to start the second half, taking the opening possession of the third quarter and marching down the field to tie the game at 7-7 on a 1-yard Tomlinson scoring run 5:12 into the second half.

On the drive, the Jets reestablished their running game, which the Colts appeared to have trouble stopping, rushing eight times for 43 yards. The only Sanchez completion on the drive was a key one — a 20-yard pass play to Keller on third-and-three.

The Colts took a 10-7 lead with 4:53 remaining in the third quarter on a 47-yard Vinatieri field goal.